Re: [PATCH] VPATH build of viewres, xedit, xfd, xgc, and xgc fails

2008-11-10 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Peter Breitenlohner wrote: > There is, however, a radically different idea. Originally the app default > file, e.g., Xmessage was distributed as Xmessage.ad for the sake of case > insensitive filesystems in order not to cause conflict with the executable > xmessage. Now the a

Re: [PATCH] VPATH build of viewres, xedit, xfd, xgc, and xgc fails

2008-11-10 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
On Sun, 9 Nov 2008, Peter Breitenlohner wrote: > There is actually a much better way to avoid race conditions: whenever there > are several app-default files, make them depend on a phony target that > ensures the existence of ./app-defaults. The phony target I proposed yesterday was a bad i

Re: [PATCH] VPATH build of viewres, xedit, xfd, xgc, and xgc fails

2008-11-09 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008, Dan Nicholson wrote: On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Peter Breitenlohner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Attached are five tiny patches. Could one of you you please apply them. In my original message I had overlooked xmh with the same problem, patch is attached. In order to